Tanner Lectures on Human Values - Lectures on Human Value

Klappentext A prestigious series of lectures that are international and intercultural! and transcend ethnic! national! religious! and ideological distinctions. Zusammenfassung Established to reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values! the Tanner Lectures are given annually at various universities around the world. Volume III explores the possibilities for the practical application of a number of theoretical approaches to the towering problems of values and the challenges of modern society. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Tanner Lectures on Human Values; The founding trustees; The advisory commission; Preface to Volume III; 1. The basic liberties and their priority John Rawls; 2. Is liberty possible? Charles Fried; 3. The representative arts as a source of truth John Passmore; 4. A writer from Chicago Saul Bellow; 5. Drugs and the brain and society Solomon H. Snyder; 6. The arms race Joan Robinson; The Tanner Lecturers; Index of names.

Product details

• Authors: Sterling M. McMurrin
• Assisted by: Sterling M. McMurrin (Editor), McMurrin Sterling M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521176439
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17643-9
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Tanner Lectures in Human Value; Tanner Lectures in Human Values; The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 10 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy